Developing, packaging and integrating JS apps with Django. As a Django dev you cannot ignore Javascript frameworks anymore. But integrating React (or any javascript framework) with Django is not seamless: there’s no documented guide to setup a project, getting hot reloading to work is a painful must-have, and then how do you even leverage the power of both frameworks to code faster? Doing this without losing time and productivity is very hard. After 4 years of building a dozen django/react projects at Theodo, I want to share with you the very efficient setup we came up with, both for development and production use. In this session we’ll see how to: setup a JS frontend alongside Django for a smooth development experience (with hot reloading!) package and deploy a js app with a Django project make frontend and backend work together: automatically harvest Django REST framework validation errors inside redux-form and get free validation in React